Attended Tappan Junior High School and Ann Arbor High School in
Ann Arbor, Michigan; received a bachelor of science degree in Aeronautical
Engineering from the University of Michigan in 1959 and the degree of
Aeronautical Engineer from the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School in 1965;
presented an honorary doctorate of Astronautical Science from the
University of Michigan in 1973 and an honorary doctor of Science
from Hope College in 1982.

Lousma was assigned as a reconnaissance pilot with VMCJ-2, 2nd Marine Air Wing,
at Cherry Point, North Carolina, before coming to Houston and the Lyndon B. Johnson
Space Center.

He has been a Marine Corps officer since 1959 and received his wings in
1960 after completing training at the U.S. Naval Air Training Command.
He was then assigned to VMA224, 2nd Marine Air Wing, as an attack pilot
and later served with VMA-224, 1st Marine Air Wing, at Iwakuni, Japan.

He has logged 6,400 hours of flight time, including 4,500 hours in jet
aircraft and 240 hours in helicopters.

NASA EXPERIENCE: Colonel Lousma is one of the 19 astronauts selected
by NASA in April 1966. He served as a member of the astronaut support
crews for the Apollo 9, 10, and 13 missions.

Lousma was pilot for Skylab 3 (SL-3), July 28 to September 25, 1973.
With him on this 59-1/2-day flight were Alan L. Bean (spacecraft commander)
and Owen K. Garriott (science-pilot).
SL-3 accomplished 150% of mission goals while completing 858 revolutions of
the earth and traveling some 24,400,000 miles in earth orbit. The crew
installed six replacement rate gyros used for attitude control of the
spacecraft and a twin-pole sunshade used for thermal control, and they
repaired nine major experiment or operational equipment items. They
devoted 305 hours to extensive solar observations from above the earth's
atmosphere, which included viewing two major solar flares and numerous
smaller flares and coronal transients. Also acquired and returned to earth
were 16,000 photographs and 18 miles of magnetic tape documenting earth
resources observations. The crew completed 333 medical experiment
performances and obtained valuable data on the effects of extended
weightlessness on man. Skylab 3 ended with a Pacific splashdown and
recovery by the USS NEW ORLEANS.

Lousma served as backup docking module pilot of the United States flight
crew for the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (ASTP) mission which was completed
successfully in July 1975.

On his second mission, Lousma was commander of the third orbital test flight
of the space shuttle Columbia (STS-3), launched from the Kennedy Space Center,
Florida, on March 22, 1982,
into a 150-mile circular orbit above the earth. His pilot for this
eight-day mission was C. Gordon Fullerton. Major flight test objectives
included exposing the Columbia to extremes in thermal stress and the first
use of the 50-foot remote manipulator system (RMS) to grapple and maneuver
a payload in space. The crew also operated several scientific experiments
in the orbiter's cabin and on the OSS-l pallet in the payload bay. The
Columbia responded favorably to the thermal tests and was found to be
better than expected as a scientific platform. The crew accomplished
almost 100% of the objectives assigned to STS-3, and after a one-day
delay due to bad weather, landed on the lakebed at White Sands, New
Mexico, on March 30, 1982, having traveled 3.4 million miles during
129.9 orbits of the earth.

Lousma has logged 1,619 hours 13 minutes and 53 seconds in his two space
flights. He also spent 11 hours and 2 minutes in two separate spacewalks
outside the Skylab space station on his first flight.